India urbanising, but slowly, UN numbers show

Despite a view that India is rapidly urbanising, it will have just half of its population in cities even in 2050, new UN projections show. In 2050, India will be one of the least urbanised major countries, with Sri Lanka, Uganda, Cambodia,...

• This first of its kind 100-consumer experiential drive will commence in May • Ford India opens EcoSport Urban Hub to engage and excite people in Mumbai and Delhi - the first two cities of the 12-city EcoSport Urban Discoveries roadshow • EcoSport Urban Hub will go to high footfall malls in 12 cities across India in a phased manner as Ecosport Urban Discoveries campaign...

New Delhi, Dec 24: At a time when the government talks about inclusive growth, more than 66 years after Independence almost 60 percent of people staying in rural India do not have access to latrine facilities, official data released here Tuesday showed. Data released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation,...

Is distress migration on a massive scale responsible for one of the most striking findings of Census 2011: that for the first time since 1921, urban India added more numbers to its population in a decade than rural India did? At 833.1 million, India's rural population today is 90.6 million higher than it was a decade ago. But the urban population is 91 million higher than it...

New Delhi, Feb 14 (ANI): The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation will organize a two-day international conference on "Inclusive Urban Planning" from February 18-19 here at Vigyan Bhavan. Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Kumari Selja will inaugurate the conference. The conference is organized under the project "Support to National Policies for...

In an indication of improved living conditions of a vast majority of people, Government data released on Tuesday said 80 per cent of rural households and 97.9 per cent urban households had electricity for domestic use, and 88.5 per cent households in rural India and 95.3 per cent in urban India had improved source of drinking water. The data is part of the 69th round survey for...

Full Session of debate between Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, National President BJYM and Mr. Lalit K. Jain, Chairman, CREDAI and Dr. Anil Kumar Sharma , President , CREDAI-NCR on the "Reality behin...

Urbanization, urbanisation or urban drift is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change or the increasing proportion of the total population becomes concentrated in towns. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008.

Urbanization is closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization. Urbanization can describe a specific condition at a set time, i.e. the proportion of total population or area in cities or towns, or the term can describe the increase of this proportion over time. So the term urbanization can represent the level of urban relative to overall population, or it can represent the rate at which the urban proportion is increasing.

As more and more people leave villages and farms to live in cities, urban growth results. The rapid growth of cities like Chicago in the late 19th century and Mumbai a century later can be attributed largely to rural-urban migration. This kind of growth is especially commonplace in developing countries. This growth can also be attributed to new job opportunities.

Full Session of debate between Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, National President BJYM and Mr. Lalit K. Jain, Chairman, CREDAI and Dr. Anil Kumar Sharma , President , CREDAI-NCR on the "Reality behind Urbanization Dream of young India" moderated by Mr. Abhigyan Prakash, NDTV.

Burton High Fives - Competitions Start Tomorrow

Press Release: TUNE IN: Watch the Second Annual Burton High Fives snowboarding competition LIVE on on September 12 and 13 WHAT: The second annual Burton 'High Fives' presented by MINI snowboarding competition, is now underway at Cardrona Alpine Resort in Wanaka, New Zealand. A live webcast of the slopestyle and halfpipe competitions will be on with the slopestyle coverage... more